THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b MblMH trmj W4aMay, t J. E. WENK. Onto la Snrbufh A Co.'itJ all ding nji rrmur, tiohbta, r, Terms, . . . $tO prTar. OnrrMpenilme MltetU. trm U Hrtl f th. V RATI OF ADVERTISING! On. Sqaara, on. inch, on. Inssrtlnn . , 1 90 On. 8qure, on. fnoh, on. month. .., . 100 On. tsquars, on. inch, thrae montbf. , On. Square, oaa inch, oo. ;r,,,. . 10 00 Two Kquaras, on. yar IS 00 Quarter Column, on. yar 80 00 Half Column, on. yr , . . 90 00 On. Column, on. y .ar . - 100 "0 Leai adTM-tiMinant. ten oat par Um each ioMdrtioo, Marriage and death notice, prat la. All bills (or yearly advertisement. oaOaM orest Republican. H VOL. XXVI. NO. 13. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. quarterly. l.mporary advertisement I Da paid in sdranoa Job work cash on delivery. T Japan in Inking most enthusiastically to the kindergarten. The Government ( Mexico 1ms issued nn official circular calling the attention of tlio Mexicou people to the necessity of immigration in order thiit the oouutry mny le developed. Tho Young Men's Christian Assoeia tion in England, started forty-nine years ago in a small room at St. Paul's churchyard, has attained such a growth thnt last year 2120 new members were enrollod. According to tho New York Post there are encouraging signs that pub lic sentiment throughout tho country is coming to recognize more clearly than ever before the necessity of in telligence in tho exercise of tho suf frage. " In Ran Francisco fifty thousand Chinamen are allowed to huddle to gether iu an area of something like a dozen blocks. Puck presumes that the Ran Francisco Hoard of Health permits this state of affairs bocauso it is a novelty ns picturosque as it is foul. On the far northwestern waters of rnget Sound there oro so many dead trees always floating thnt none but screw steamers or stern wheelers can navigate A side-wheeler would sooner or later strike a log, perhaps weighing many tons, which would knock liei paddlo to splinters. Dvorak, tho Uoheminncomposer, who recently conducted some of hit own music at tho World's Fair, de clares that tho possibilities of an American school of music lio in the Southern melodies. He believes that American composers should study these songs and build npon them. Tho gavel presented by tho New Orleans Cotton Exchange to Judge Chrismnn, who defied the mob in Mis sissippi and protected prisoners, it flunked with so d plates of gold. Iu accepting it the Judge made a modest and a model speech. Tho Chicago Her ald stutcB that his conduct is univer sally lauded in tho South by press and people. Tho steamer John Hancock, which was wrecked a few weeks ago, by a gale while tied up at the wharf at Bundpoint, Alaska, has an interesting history. During the troubles between the United States and Japan the Han cock carried tho pennant of Coinnio doro Perry, and it was iu her cabin that tho treaty between the countries was signed. The "baby King" of Spain has ceased to auiusa and entertain his sub jects by his iufahtilo graces, hears tho Argonaut, and has become a weakly and uninteresting child of larger growth. As ho becomes more mature, he gives evidence that he has inherited the weaknesses of profligate ancestors. Officially he is Alfonso tho Thirteenth, and the croakers think thero is an omen in the unlucky number. Colonel rfohn A. Creighton, ol Omaha, Neb., ten times a millionaire, has a semi-National reputation as a philanthropist. no has given $3, 000,000 at various times to the city ot Omaha, to be devoted to charitable purposes. Ouo of his gifts was a hos pital. It has an ironclad rulo to the effect that the applicant for relief shall be asked no questions us to his race or color or religious beliefs or morals or politics. All that tho physicians are required to know is that he suffers and needs attention. If he is able to pay he pays, and if he is not his treatment does not cost him a cent. America has always been liberal in her educational expenditures. Chief Harris, of the Bureau of Education, estimates that "on uu uverage tho youth of the laud receive each seven teen weeks schooling anuuully for ten years," aud he says thnt in the nine teen years prior to ISM'J tho value of property owned by public schools in creased from $1 30, 000, 000 to $323,000, 000, and whereas in 1870 tho amount expended on education was $1.61 per capita for the whole population, the expenditure in 1889 was 82.10 per capita. Here, however, it would bt well for the optimist to ftl figuring. In 1870 the total of $ti3,00'J,000 was spent for the education of 11,000,000 of children between the ages of six and twenty, ru i.verago ot $5.75 for each child, while iu If Hi) there were $133,000,000 expended for 20,000,000 of children an uverago of $0.60 for each child. Thus, while it sounds ' well to soy thut the' unuuul expendi ture more than doubled in the length of time under con,. leratiou, the real increase per child was small and hurdly kept pace w ltu tho demands uf pducalioual progress. Kansas has a school for every 188 pupils, Massachusetts one to 600, Pennsylvania ono to 400. Tho Madrid Epooa expresses tho be lief that Great Britain will ultimately cede Gibraltar to Spain if indemnified for tho cost of the fortifications which Orcat Britain has constructed there. Tho New York Mail and Express claims that it was tho first to use tho expression "Old Glory," as applied to the Stars and Stripes, the former ap pellation being not almost as common as the latter. During all tho thousand years in which the Tckin Gazette, the organ of tho imperial crown in China, has been in existence, only seventeen of its edi tors .have been Iwbeadod. So says Joe Howard in the New York Recorder. The warden of the Central Prison at Toronto says in his report to the Ontario Government that "of 25,000 children brought to Canada by Miss Macpherson, Dr. Barnardo, Mr. Quarrier and others, from Great Britain, . only throe per cent, havo lapsed into crime." These children were nearly all homeless waifs gathered iu London and other great cities. Five thousand little graves are dug each year in .Philadelphia for little babies, says a medical paper of New York City, and C000 little headstones are yearly set np over their graves, all duo to deaths traccublo to tho diseases which spring from wrong feeding. Iu the overwhelming majority of instances the poor food of which the babies die is bad milk, diseased milk or skimmed milk. The New York Post announces that a war between Cores and Japan has been averted by the mediation of Sec retary Gresham. The trouble arose on acconnt of a Corean decree prohib iting the exportation of beans and pulse, the country being threatened with famine. The Corean Government has agreed to pay 110,000 indemnity to settle the claims of Japanese mer chants. It appears that during the ten years from 1881 to 1891 the population of India increased from 253,000,000 to 287,000,000. Tho- enumeration of tracts previously neglected and the ad dition of Upper Burmah to British ter ritory accounts for nearly 6,000,000 o the increase, but the actual population of the area enumerated in both years shows an increaao of over 27,000,000, or about eleven per cent. The London Industries is consider ably worked np over tho way this country is taking away Great Britain's locomotive trade with South Africa. During the first quarter of the prosent year England Shipped only about one third as many locomotives to South American countries as she did during the first three months of 1890 and her miles in South Africa were roduced from $192,890 to $1700. These coun tries are buying just as many locomo tives now as two years ago, 'but they are buying from this country instead of from England. Says the New York Post : Wo hear more and more every year about the growing difficulty of obtaining work in this country as it becomes more thickly settled. Yet there is one important department in which the supply of la bor fulls constantly further short of the demand. This is domestio service. The complaints are universal, and they become all the while more vehement. The Watertown (Conn.) correspondent of the Waterbnry American writes: "There is a great demand for good and honest servant girls in our town. Ser vant girls, as a general rule, do not like to come into the country towns, as there is little society and but few amusements such as entertainments, theatres, etc. for them here. No matter how good the pay aud the treat ment is here, they had rather be in a city where they will get less pay aud have to work harder than to go into a country .town. It is almost impossible if any one is in need of woman help to find any ono who is willing to work for any price. A few good women who understand house-cleaning, washing, aud that sort of work could find work here the year around at good wages. " There is nothing exceptional in tho condition of Watertown, adds the I'ost. Huudreds of country towns are as badly off. Moreover, tho diflloulty of obtaining good Bervico in the city in creases all tho time. Meanwhile wo are constantly importuned to bewail the condition of women who are work ing for "starvation wages" in other employments, but who would rather keep on than earn good pay as laun dresses or cooks. It is one of the niobt extraordinary phenomena of modern civilization. STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS. Last night there tolled till late a Utile spin ner ; From loaf to Vfit her silken threndB she swung Now, dow-ensllverod in tho morning sun shine, Tho finished lace Is hung. And one who hath boon wont to storm aud conquer, And strongest bars to break with diiuntloee prldn, To spare the filmy web across his pathway, Pauses, and turns aside. Clara W. Bronson, in Youth's Companion. THE FOURTH AT KA BOB. BY FOKHKST CRISHEY. Uiaw.; nE Jayhawk family was in a state of intense excitement, which increased as the Fourth of July approao hed. Nothing had oc curred since tho birth of Jehial, the only scion of that rural house. that had so stirred tho tranquility of the household as had his meek request for the use of the old mare and the h"Bgy with which to take Phoobe Jones to "tho Fourth" at Ka Bob. Jehial understood the lay of the land well enough to know that his startling petition should be put in along with tho first seeds of spring, in order to ripon definite decision by the time tho smoko and tumult of In dependence Day began to ascend from- the Ka Bob publio square, which was, to him, the grand theatre of all truly metropolitan events. Jehial had conceived this daring do sire to distinguish himself as a man among men while casting "sheep's eyes" at the back of Fhfebe's bowed head during the long prayerB that con stituted the bono and sinew of tho weokly "conference meeting" at Zion's Church. It must be confessed that thoro was little courage about his first conscious wish to celebrate the glorious Fourth by so bold a stroke of gallantry. It wasBimply a wish. But as each warm spring day spread its seductive in fluences about him, and ho strode across tho steaming field in the wake of plow or drag, his longing grew stronger, and he nursed it Into a sturdy resolution. tint, somehow, ins courage was stronger when alone in the field than when face to fuco with his father, at home. It seemed as though tho right op portunity for approaching his father with tho proposition never would pre sent itself, and he delayed tho dread ordeal from day to day. At lost the handbills announcing tho order .of exercises for tho great cele bration at Ka Bob appeared. It was to eclipso all former celebrations in magnificence, and each special attrac tion was discussed with as much zest and relish as though it was not a pre cise repetition of tho programme that had been advertised year after vear, until every adult knew just which features would bo presented and which omitted. "Ma, I wuz jest a-thinkin' I'd like t' go t' that Fourth of July down t' Ka Bob, " said Jehial, to his mother, as sho camo out to tho old well sweep for a bucket of water, where be was wash ing the plowed ground from gaunt feet. "Why, of conrso ! I s'pose we're all going," she replod. "But I don't mean that. I wuz thiukin' I'd like to go alone and and take some ono, " he stammered. "'Go alone aud take some one!' Why, child, who ever heard of such a thing? Whot on 'urth do you mean?" "S-c-hl here comes pa!" excluimed the timid Jehial, in an undertone, as his father emerged from the barn. looking like a rural conception of stern justice, with the exacting bat ances, as he lifted an old-fashioned blueueck yoke to his shoulders and stooped to hook pendant arm into tho bail of a froth-flecked pail of milk. When they were again alone, Jehial, without looking up from his labor of ablution, resumed tho conversation. "Yes, ma; I'd like t' take Pheabe t' the Fourth ; but I ain't said nothin' t' pa 'bout it. I kinder hate to, some how. Can't you have a little talk with him 'bout it?" "Well, I s'pose I con," replied the mother, "but I'm euro I don't know what ho'll think 'bout it." Accordingly, after Jehial had re tired, she laid tho proposition before her husband. "Lord-a-massy, Mary I What 'u idee 1 That boy ubowin' Square Jones' little gal round on a Fourth of July I Why, he's nothin' but a colt, an' the whole town would bo npokin' fun ut tho little fools. An', what's more, no Jay hawk's got auy call to bo mixin' with tho Jones after all tho trouble thut we've hud with tho old Square over thut line fence. It's all poppy-cot. I'm williu' that Jehial should go t' the Fourth, but I don't want uuy gal business 'bout it. Why, Mary, jest think of thut youngster's tukin' a horse uu' buggy ui.' a gal round there where they'd be a-shoot-iu' firecrackers an' anvils, aud a-suap-pin' them pesky little torpedoes! 'Taint no place for a horse, l;t ulone triibtin' it with a boy that's got a gul aboard. Ho'll break his neck au' the gul's too !" "But you remember tho time when you took me to the Fourth at Busti, and you weren't any older than Jehial, and hudu't had uuy inure experience with horses Hum he has." This was uu iirgunient ad homiuein that the futhcr hud not counted on. i He gave it several moments of silent consideration and then took refuge i. his lubt platitude : "Well, it ain't safe!" The mother of Jehial was quick to see this sign of weakening, and fol lowed np her successful attack, at dis creet intervals, until the matter finally came to a head. After a protracted night session of tho domestic executive committee, it was determined that Jehial should at tend the glorious Fourth, with full power to act. Jehial cheerfully accepted fifty cents from his mother, anil made his way to Squire Jones's to obtain tho consent of the Jones family. As he entered the Squire's gate and passed np the narrow gravel walk be tween the balsam trees, vainly laboring to formulate his request in graceful words, and commit them to memory before reaching the door, ho would have gladly exchanged his task for thnt of breaking a Canada pair of steers, plowing a ten-acre field, or teaching a trio of calves to drink. How his heart thumped as the soles of his cowhide boots grated on the coarse gravel of tho walk. He imagined that it wonld not seem so hard were it not for the fact that he was on hostile ground for a Jayhawk had not set foot upon the Jones premises since the immortal bottlo of the line fence. But those who can vividly recall the trepidation with which they preferred their first request for a young lady's company win doubt if any collateral circnm stances could materially enhance the terrors ol the moment. His footfalls npon the front porch sounded, to his own ears, like 'ailing planks, ana tbe raps of his knuckles upon the panel of the front door like heavy ortillery. But the calm that settled down upon the house and all nature, after his knock, seemed still louder. Could it be that they were not going to respond to h is rappings? Or was she laughing at him from behind the shutters before admitting him? Before ho had decided which of these theories to accept ho heard footsteps approaching along the hallway, then a hand upon the door-knob. One mo ment more and he would stand in tho presence of his fate ! He drew a full breath and braced himself for the un known. But the door did not open. It had not been open since the minister called, in the winter, and seemed averse to establishing a precedent. In vain the person on the inside struggled with the key and clicked it backward and forward. At last, when the suspense had become intolerable, a voice from within called forth : "Go to the side door, please." To the side door he went and again screwed up his courage, which had reached ebb-tide during the period of Buspense, and found himself admitted by Mrs. Jones to the kitchen. A glance revealed the fact that ttie lord of tho house of Jones was fast asleep in his arm-chair, his boots off, and his calves Waid across a kitchen chair. "Is Miss Jones in ' timidly inquired Jehial, fearful that his voice might arouse the sleeper. "Y-e-s," doubtfully replied Mrs. Jones. "Do you want to see her in particular "Yessum I I " "Well, she's gone to bed; but if you 11 wait 1 11 call her, interrupted Mrs. Jones, going to the stairs door and shouting : "Ph'eb! Phoobe Jones. Git right up an come down, lou ve got com pany 1" The sleeping father evidently recog nized the peremptory tone and awak ened with a snort the fragments of an exploded snore. Ho rubbed his eyes and inquired : "What's up?" "You are, an' you'd better go on to bed," responded his wife in the same convincing tone. He evidently shared her opinion, for he immediately groped and stumbled along to an adjoining room, without ever discovering Jehial in the unlight ed room. It seemed to Jehial that hours passed before Phoebe descended the stairs and entered the room, and in response to Mrs. Jones's questions he had told all that he ever knew and considerable that he only guessed at, regarding the history of the Jayhawks and their an tecedents and "circumstances." Phoebe, clad in a simple white dress, that seemed to him a marvel of ele gance, advanced and gave him her hand, saying: "Good evening, 'Mr. Jayhawk ; will you excuse me while I get a light?" Sho went into the parlor and lit the center-table lamp a ponderous affair with an cloborately decorated globe of ground glass. "Walk right in this way, Mr. Juy hawk," sho called from tho parlor in her best parlor voice. It was tho first time he had ever heard himself called Mr., and it seemed so ridiculously out of shape that the ghost of a grin began to twitch the corners of his mouth. Fortnnately for Jehiul, Phoebe di vined both his timidity and his inten tions and at once brought matters to a successful issue by asking him if ho had seen the announcement for the Fourth and if ho purposed to attend. "Yes; I was thiukin' I'd like to go if-if-if I might" "Certainly; I should think you might just as well us not. It would be too bad to miss such a Fourth us this is to be, I'm sure," prompted Fho-be. "1 I I mean I'd like the pleasure of your company to the Fourth, Miss Jones," he stammered, recollcctiug his formula and pronouncing it at a single breath, as though fearful thut it might escape him before he could pronounce it. "Certainly; with pleasure, Mr. Jay hawk," replied Miss Jones in tho af fected tone prescribed by the "Ladies' Guide to Etiquette or the Manual of Good Manners." Then came a dead culm broken only by the echoes of the pareutul snores whose outer rip ples penetrated to the most distant portion of tho house. Finally Jehiul grinned at tho variations in tho nasal serenade and crossed his legs, rhfr-be also grinned and shifted her position. Then they grinned in concert and shifted in concert. Phoobe a-hemmed aud Jehial a-hemmed. Jehial remarked that he must bo go ing, and Pheabe remarked that lie must not be in a hurry. He took her at her word and allowad another dead calm to settle. Even the parental snores failed to start the conversa tional circulation. Tho frogs in tho deep hole digniflod in common par lance by tho name of Daddy Jones's "music box" did their best to rasp the silenco into speech and failed. Then a screech-owl lit on tho well sweep and fetched a screech that foily lifted tho speechless couple from their feet. Jehial again remarked that he must bo going. Phoebe did not dispute it. As he passed out into the moonlight and heard Phoebe shut the door be hind him and struggle with the rebel lious look it seemed to him that he was walking upon thin air instead of gravel. There was something in the moonlight that he had never known be fore. Even the frogs in the old "mu sio box" crooked with a rhythm and cadence almost divine he wondered that be had never noticed it before. Ho wondered at the pangs of doubt and timidity that he had suffered a few moments beforo when going np that walk. It seemed a new world to him. All things had become new. Every star twinkled with a seven-fold bril liancy all because bis star of hope had risen 1 .... The Fourth was over, almost. They Had gazed in unconcealed astonishment at tho long procession of masked and painted "Fantastics, " and laughed till they ached at the broad burlesques and crude impersonations ; they had convulsed at the falls of the bag races, and roared at the antics of the pur suers of the greased pig ; they had ex perienced the patriotic shocks which result from the discharge of an anvil ; they had drained to the dregs the pleasures of pink lemonade and feasted on the sweets of sticky popcorn balls. As they rode home the sun slowly sank behind the hills gray and grizzled with the sheen of dry, wiry poverty grass that fringed their sterile summits, like the scanty bristles on the back of a lean herd of swine. They had reached the period of silence that always falls about the last half hour of a long homeward journey. At the top of the lost hill straggled the line fence over which their parents hod contended. When they had fin ished the ascent and came opposite this Jehial pulled the mare to halt, pre sumably for the purpose of allowing her to rest, and then cast his eyes about for some object of conversation to render the interval less embarrass ing. The first and only thing in view which afforded a possible topic of con versation was tho historio line fence, and that was well-nigh as embarrassing as the silenco. "I must go an' fix up that lino fence tho first thing I do, "he ventured ; "pa no business to let it run so long with out patchin'." "Well, it will bo a shame if you have to, for 'taint your business to keep up the part this side of the old burned stuff; pa ought to do that, but he won't, he'd rather quarrel about it," said Phoebe, "an' that's just what's kept them that ought to be good neigh bors apart." "Well, I never saw a line fence that was worth hard feelings between neigh bors and and a thousand line fences can't keep ns apart, can they, Phoabe?" Jehial exclaimed, as tho mare gave a sudden pull that indicated a desire to continue the homeward journey. Al though sho had heard the answer to Jehiul's question, she wisely said noth ing only frisked her tail knowingly and hurried on. The line fence that day did ponanco for the strife that it had once provoked, and in due time it entirely disap peared, for tho Jones and Jayhawk farms were consolidated, and the Fourth of July is celebrated with more than patriotic sentiment byl'hcebeand Jehial. Arkansas Traveler. How the Patent Office Mas RaTed. When, in tho War of 1812 the office having been removed to a building of its own two years before the British, who had taken the city, trained their guns upon tho Putent Office, Dr. Thornton, throwing himself diroctly before tho guns, criod : "Are you Englishmen or Goths and Vandals? This is tho Patent Office a depository of tho ingenuity and in ventions of tho American Nutiou, iu which the whole civilized world is in terested. Would you destroy it? Then let the charge pass through luy body." Aud tho building was spared. Twenty-four yours aftorwurd, however, it "was destroyed by fire, together with everything in it. Aud with this came the beginning of tho present buildiug, added to from time to time, till at last tho noble pile stands complete as it is to-dav, holding model or a drawing of every invention kuown iu the whole world, uud having paid something more than two millions of dollars over and above its own expenses, a sum which represents only a trifle of tho great umouut it has added to the wealth of tho Nutiou. Harper s Young People. The Nile's Aiiuuul Overflow. Tho Nile hug a full of but six inches to tho 1000 miles. The overflow com mences iu Juno every year uud con tinues until August, attaining an ele vation of from twenty-four to twenty- six feet above low water murk, aud flowing through the "Valley of Egypt" n a turbulent body twelve miles wide. During tho lust 1001) years thero bus been but one uiddcu rUc of the Nile, that of 1829, vhen 30,000 were people urowuvd. l'UT "STICKERS" ON COINS. NEW DEVICES WHICH ARK BOTH ERING THE TREASURY. Tradesmen Sticking Advertisements on Silver Dollars-Putting "DouUo Headers" on Sliver Pieces. CT TICKERS" are giving tho )( Government a good deal of J) bother. They are circular bits of paper with adver tisement on tho face and ronciluge on the back. Made by tho lick of the tongue to adhere to tho reverse of a silver dollar, ono of these little (..as ters is just big enough to fit inside of tho milled rim. They have been com ing widely into use in tho West and the South. Every time a merchant re ceives a cartwheel dollar in tho way of business, he slaps a sticker upon it, which rends, "Take me back to liuggs, cheap furniture house, where you get tho biggest value for cosh," or, "Ke turn me to Snaggs, the dry goods man, and I will fetch a bargain." Many people are unwilling to accept the sticker dollars, and so the circula tion of Uncle Sam's coins is interfered with. Most banks will not take them, because the Troasnry has issued a noti fication to the effect that it will not ac cept or redeem them. It holds tho ground that they are defaced and are not legal tender on that account, ft is true that they might bo restored to their original perfection by removing the stickers, but Secretary Carlisle hoi no appropriation for scraping them off. Tho mucilage employed is of so excel lent a quality that twelve hours' soak ing does not loosen the paper from tho silver. Furthermore, the covering uy of ono side of tho coin renders it greatly more difficult to discover whether the latter is a counterfeit or not. Chief Drummond, of the Secret Service, showed to your correspondent o specimon of tho finest imitation dollar ever struck with a die. It is plated with silver, and few experts could dis tinguish it from a real one. Tho de ception was considerably euhonced by a sticker on tho reverse advertising a shoe house in Ottumwo, Iowa. Were this practice permitted manufacturers of false money would make a business of pasting on the backs of their bogus pieces advertisements bearing the names of reputable shop keepers. Thus, inasmuch as a respectable merchant would not knowingly use bad coins to publish his business, his credit would help the counterfeits to gain circula tion. Also, how is anybody to know that the side of the dollar concealed by sticker has not been scooped out and filled np with lead? Fortunately there is a legal enact ment forbidding the defacement of the United States money, and that law is to be enforced for tho immediate suppres sion of this new attack upon tho cur rency. Many district attorneys in various parts of tho country havo already threatened to prosecute mer chants using the stickers, and tho business will be brought to an abrupt close. Oddly enough, a scheme wholly similar was started a few years ago, but it was nipped in tho bud beforo it had a chance to spread. Men some times stamp their firm names on coins. Likewise they print their business cards on the backs of 1 or 32 bills. Such acts aro strictly forbidden by law. The penalty is (100 tine for each note or coin so marked. A speoies of coin mutilation not less interesting than that above described has excited the attention of the Secret Service during tho past year. It is tho manufacture of whut are technically called "double headers," for gambling purposes. For example, a silver dollu.1 is put into a latho and a cutting tool is applied to it in such a manner as to roniove three-fourth of tho metal from tho back, leaving the milled rim in tact. What remains resembles in form a blacking box lid. Next, an other dollar is taken, and tho buck of it is sliced off iu tho shape of a thin disk. This disk mid t'uo frugrnent liko a blacking box lid are then joined neatly together in such u manner as to produce what has tho apper.runco of a wholo silver dollar. The piece thus composed has no head of Liberty, but two tails ono on each side. In precisely the same manner silver coins aro turned out with two heads. Such pieces aro sold by some dealers in so-called "sporting'' goods to per sons who wish to use them for cheat ing ununspieiotis strangers iu bar rooms aud elsewhere. Di.llurs thus prepared fetch $5 each, hnlf dollar $3 each. A Chicago man arri-toil for manufacturing them recently wai' con victed and fined under the law nliich prohibits tho making of "coins of original designs" by private individu als iu this country. There is no doubt that tho idea is exceedingly original as well as dangerous to tho unsophisti cated. The "little game" worked with these "double headers" is us simple as it in profitable. It is uecessary thut the operator shall bo provided with two of tho coins one with two heuds and the other with two tails. On finding a man who iu willing to gamble for dol lars, he says: "I'll mutch you first." Tho other fellow lays down his piece ou the bur, head up. Seeing thnt, tho swindler chucks u, his coin with two head. Of coiirao hu cauuot help win ning. Theu ho puts down the good dollar which he has just won, uud his odversury throws up uud "uiutches." Hero ha hus au exactly even chunco. Uut on tho next throw his opponent lays dowu his coin tail up to be matched. Observing thnt cireniu stituce tho operator chucks up his piooe with two tuils. It is easy for him to interchange the two fake dol lars offhand. Luck being eveu other wise, he must win three out of four times, uud a few minutes' pluy is sure to net a satisfactory profit. GiiKny hus been iu use iu the United Status fut1 tho last sixty yt-ius. A WATERMELON SONO, O, tho Ooorgla watermelon it's n-growln' cool an' green, Au'll sonn bn pullln' heavy nt the stem , An' tho knife It m'ils a whettln', au' tho Modois gittln' keen, O, tho Ooorgia watermelon Is a gem I Melons cool an' grwn J-s' the liest yoti ever seen ! Kee tho sweet juice drippin' From them melons cool an' green ! O, the Ooorgla wutcrinelon with the purtlest sort o' strle ! It sln't a streak o' fnt an' stronk o' lean , You thump her with yer fingers, au' you benr her answer "liipe !" 0 tho Georgia watermelon cool au' green I Slelons cool on' green Jes' the best you ever srvii ! Bee the rod Juieo drippin' From them melons con! sn' rrni Atlanta Constitution HUMOR OF THE HAY. Time flies Seventeen-year locusts. Barking dogs sometimes bite the dust. It is tho man who bents that is will ing to lot by-gones bo by-gones. Tho camel is a lucky brute. It never has to hump itself. Troy Press. A low-suit weors out sooner at the pockets than at the knees. Puck. A Bkcptic is a man who doubts the accuracy of his own watch. Puck. Talk about women being flighty t Look at bunk cashiers. Texas Sittings- It is probably called pin money be causo the husband is stuck for it Troy Press. Our uncle, tho pawnbroker, may not havo pleasant ways, but wo have to put npwith him. Puck. Nenrly all tho men who have in vented flying machines aro residing in our cemeteries. Statesman. That many men have many rnkids Provorlilftl law astutely Units, To me it oftener seems fall That mnuy have no miuu at all. -Life. The niite that tho Anarchist is will ing to contribute for tho promotion of his causo is dynamite. Detroit Free Press. "I didn't know it was so late," said the volcano, awaking from its long slumber; "I must start my fire." Chicago Tribune. When Fogg has run upstairs and ar rives at tho top out of breath, he very properly refers to his pneumatic tire. Boston Transcript. Mrs. Slimdiet "Don't you find it a little lonesome sitting down to luncheon all alone?" Bordoire "Oh, no; the cheeso is hero. " Truth. "I've got it in for you, my friend," soliloquized the mosquito, sinking it a little deeper in tho sleeping victim's noso. Chicago Tribune. Wo aro all willing to acknowledge that we havo our faults; but mighty few of us aro willing to acknowledge the faults our friends see iu us. Puck. Wealth does not tiring contentment, And nono gets whut he axes ; For if ho did, he'd want the. earth, And growl ubout the tine. Judge. "From what I've been reading 1 suppose boarding-houses must have been found first iu Turkey." "Will you explain why?" "Tho best variety of prunes grows there. " "Which of us would you rather have?" asked ono of the two men run ning across the field. "I don't cure," replied tho bull; "it's a toss up be tween you." Washington Star. "Don't you think Mrs. Stanton's opinions aro very much biased?" Mrs. Lntestyle "Mercy, I mil not sur prised, for sho hasn't any more idea of stylo thun a heathen." Chicago Inter-Oeoau. "They amputated his leg after all, eh? Whut made the doctors wait so long?" "Jtidgin' from their bills, it must have been to give 'em a chance to pull it beforo they took it oil'." Buf falo Courier. lack "I dou't believe all that stuff about women always wanting the last word." Dick "Why don't you?" Jock "Well, lust night I told Miss Checkbook that I knew thut I was not worthy of her, and sho did not suy a word in reply." Iuter-Oceuu. An Ancient Alligator. An alligator has just been killed in Louisianu thut is known to have been 120 years old. In 1773 the greut-great-grundfather of the present owner ol tho plantation on which this alligator wus killed purchased the plantation. His first work was to rid it of alliga tors. Ho rallied a family of alllatot'U uud killed nil but one, who escaped, leuving a portion of his tail. This alli gator was seen from time to tunc and reeoguied because part of his tail was gone. The alligator was never tamed, but in a general way received tho care uud protection of each member of the family through tho lour generations. A visitor to the plantation saw a rciit alligator lying on the bank. He raised his gun, but it required several .shots before the animal was killed. He wus delighted with tho success, when his host camo up and showed his sorrow lit what his guest had done. The alli gator was buried on the banks of tho stream, the entire family attending tho obsequies. Xew Volk Observer. ibttallou ot Crops iu l inpf. The rotation of crops now most commonly practiced in Egypt includes wheat, generally followed by barley, dhoura, beans, or lentils; clover fol lowed by w heat, saltlowrr by lupins or peas, sutar eiuie by tlhuiira, the latter b tin , ami they aain by imbo, which li-ts for three ears. In the X'uyottm ilisti ict, the rise crop -e- u grcui industry, ."' , 1 1; it) ouuec-, ot Kw im'Ihv being exported ytat ly.
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